Rust Will Not Inherit the Earth, It Barely Deserves a Place on the Planet
If people delve into "Rust politics", then they're losing sight - perhaps intentionally - of legal and technical matters.
My experience with Rust goes a very long way back. I wanted to compile some darn thing on my ARM laptop around 2019 and it turned out Rust wasn't just truly bloated (even back then!), using it was a pain in the bum. I've been compiling programs for decades already, having developed all sorts of software. Rust, after all those decades, made things harder, not simpler.
To me, Rust seems like a lot of "hot air". I'm technical enough to understand that it is neither a security panacea nor does it improve performance. When people say that some Rust thing performs better than something else that is widely used they won't bother telling you the Rust thing isn't comparable as it lacks many of the base features, it isn't cross-platform (hardware-wise), and it's optimised for some very particular thing so as to cheat benchmarks.
Rust - like Haskell and many other short-lived fetishes - will come and go. It's hard to tell if Rust will still be actively maintained in 10 years. Don't bet on it!
For companies that adopt the "Broken Window" mantra this does not seem to matter, but if we want Linux to reach 50 (2041), then we should worry more about Rust than about UNIX time 'running out of bits'. █
Image source: August Strindberg